Jacuzzi Time! Wooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo!

A friend of mine, Rufina, posted this comment on Facebook: "The question is not 'Do you know and admit you're a sinner?' Even the devil can admit to that! He would say 'Yes, I am a sinner and a very fine one at that!' The real question is 'do you hate your sin?'"

Here was my response:

I think we need to dig even deeper than ‘do I hate sin’? Yes, I hate sin yet I still do it. It comes down to choice. Am I going to walk in sin RIGHT NOW...this very moment...this very hour...and then what am I going to do if I do walk in sin? Am I going to stay in my Jacuzzi of sin (which I like to call 'poo')?

Just think about that a minute – a Jacuzzi of sin. When we choose to sin we are placing ourselves in the Jacuzzi of c--p and poo...do you have a picture of a Jacuzzi, cesspool or a sewer of poo? Good, THAT IS the image I am trying to display in your mind. We say to ourselves, and others, while we are sitting in this hot tub of poo, disgust, and rank odors, "Come on in, the water's fine" or "I'm doing great here". We end up splashing around in it, which causes all the 'floaters' to go wild and we 'think' we are having so much fun. Then before we know it we find ourselves sinking lower and lower in the poo (sin), getting darker and darker, smelling more gross not even concerned with how we smell, look or emit ourselves to and UPON others. Yikes! This is disgusting, I know! This is what sin is like, but much more devastating.

I mean, can you imagine playing in a Jacuzzi full of c--p? No way, the infections and diseases found in feces are horrendous. We are so careful to wash our hands when we use the bathroom and for a very good reason, yet we choose to take part in sin, which is far worse than not washing our hands after using the restroom. Maybe when we are literally washing our hands from now on we will ask Holy Spirit to reveal to us the Jacuzzi's of poo, c--p, and sin we are playing in, get out of the Jacuzzi and get clean.

Yes, let us choose to hate sin, walk away from it before even entering the Jacuzzi full of poo, thus staying clean.

I know this image is crude but there is much truth to it. My sister, Angela Dilley, and I have been discussing it for the last year. When one of us is in the Jacuzzi of sin we always ask, "Are you ready to get out or are you going to sit there and play in it some more?" Sometimes to be honest, we do stay, but having that revelation often brings about quick change.

NOW, if we are in the stinking' Jacuzzi, let us choose to get OUT quick and allow Jesus to cleanse us with our confessions of wrongdoing. Let us shower, bathe, and swim in the pools or Rivers of Life He offers and not in the hot, stinky, gross, sticky, brown, black Jacuzzi of sin. Amen?